Freebies and Pay What You Need
Word: Whereas “Pay What You Need” downloads can be found without spending a dime, please assist the creators if you’re in a position!
Skies Above is a JRPG-inspired tabletop roleplaying recreation from LostHavenGames set in a fantasy post-apocalyptic world that eschews the grimdark for “a vigorous realm brimming with vitality, intrigue, progress, and abundance”. The sport makes use of a customized d8-based system with Job and Class based mostly character creation.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Urged: $1.00)
Brian Leakage has a 0-level OSR funnel journey On Wine Darkish Sea the place the PCs attempt to survive the ultimate battle and aftermath of the Fall of Troy.
Mongoose Publishing launched the eight problem of their Twilight:2000 zine, You’re On Your Personal. New automobiles, weapons, historic figures, fiction, and extra.
Rat in a Swimsuit Productions has a brand new horror RPG, Land within the Mist, set between 1750 to 1850, the age of the Napoleonic Wars, the founding of america, and the French Revolution. This starter set provides the fundamentals of the narrative-first system and an journey “Of Pagens and Reindeer” set in 1811 Finland.
In case you’re in search of a Mörk Borg journey, everweird.world has The Scropulating of the Pious. Ths one-shot monster looking survival mission locations the get together within the cursed metropolis of Vulffhornn lined in abomination-spawning necroplasm.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Urged: $2.00)
Blood, Cash, and Metal is a marketing campaign information for the fast-playing BattleTech: Alpha Strike wargame. Begin a mercenary firm and take contracts, salvage defeated enemies, improve your ‘Mechs, and navigate complicated missions with air assist, provides, reinforcements, and extra.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Urged: $1.00)
Guild Masters Guides launched the 5e journey The Hidden Grove which sends the extent 1-4 get together into an historical spire to defeat the magical constructs defending its secrets and techniques.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Urged: $2.99)
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, the journey Cosy as a Bug from the_city_of_dunmore tasls the 2nd stage get together with serving to a rug store with their harmful new acquisition, a Rug of Smothering.
Sick of being despatched as pest management to handle irregular rats? How concerning the get together works for the rats this time. In The Rat and the Halfling from Rodhill Gaming, the third to fifth stage PCs are requested by a bunch of woke up rats to research a rat catcher that threatens their smuggling operation.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Urged: $1.99)
Over on Storytellers Guild, Pooka G launched the fourth problem of the zine Dispatches from the Vault. Critiques, interviews, previews, and extra.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Urged: $1.00
The primary Lightning Spherical this week options gamemaster/DM assets like monsters, maps, random turbines, one-page adventures, drop-in encounters, and extra. All merchandise are Free or pay what you need with the instructed worth in parentheses
The second Lightning Spherical this week options participant assets like new courses, races/species, character choices, spells, and extra. All merchandise are Free or pay what you need with the instructed worth in parentheses
Vacation Merchandise
This yr, there have been so many free/PWYW holiday-themed merchandise that they deserve their very own part. If you wish to run a one-shot at your vacation get together or take a break out of your marketing campaign to save lots of Christmas, these merchandise are for you.
Heroic Maps doesn’t simply have vacation themed maps (see their bundle beneath), however in addition they have Journey Sources: Festive Journey Hooks, a set of quick scenes to arrange an journey.
From Adventures in Filbar, XM24 – Santos Sleigh is a brief journey the place the get together is working out of provides at an outpost on the frontier with a resupply wagon lengthy overdue. There’s a heavy knocking on the door. Is it hostile forces with artillery? No, a big large with an axe…
Phil Reed has extra for Mörk Borg with a trio of holiday-themed monsters: Krampus, Niklaus, and the Snowman.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Urged: $1.00)
Man Alone additionally has some Mörk Borg vacation enjoyable with Creation Calendar for Nechrubel. And by “enjoyable”, I after all imply this Creation Calendar is filled with issues horrible and horrifying. What did you anticipate from Mörk Borg?
- Value: Pay What You Need (Urged: $1.00)
Windmill Sam Video games needs to deliver some Die Onerous impressed motion to your fantasy RPG of selection with the system-neutral journey The Evening of the Xmas-Ghoul.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Urged: $1.00)
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, TheTrickster314 and Brendan Barth launched Wassail and Wander – A Christmas Themed Magic Merchandise Assortment. This assortment options 4 holiday-themed magic objects prepared on your 5e video games.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Urged: $0.50)
I can’t do that higher than the product web page for Lord of the Reindeer does:
“One reindeer to rule all of them, one reindeer to seek out them. One reindeer to information all of them and within the Yuletide bind them. Within the land of Icewind Dale the place the Rime did lie, a bunch of adventurers should deliver a cursed reindeer to an historical volcano and defeat the ambitions of a Hidden Lord.”
This eighth stage journey ties into Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus and a return to Icewind Dale with appearances from Santa Claus, Krampus, and different acquainted vacation faces.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Urged: $0.50)
Bejamin Xiaofang Hurley has Fast Quests: 12 Days of Quest-Mas, a set of quick holiday-themed adventures working from stage 1-12.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Urged: $2.49)
Bundles and Gross sales
Word: I’ve included finish dates when listed for the next gross sales, however please be warned that these with out revealed finish dates might finish abruptly so you’ll want to plan purchases accordingly.
DriveThruRPG’s Haunted Vacation Sale embraces the lengthy custom going again to Dickens of including horror to the vacation season. Choose up discounds on Wraith: The Oblivion and Geist: The Sin Eaters core rulebooks together with over 100 sourcebooks, setting books, rule sexpansions, adventures, and extra for the World and Chronicles of Darkness video games of the afterlife.
- Value: As much as 50% off
- Finish Date: December 28, 2024
DriveThruRPG additionally has the Dungeons & Dragons Vacation Sale that includes reductions on Roll20 VTT-ready adventures together with Curse of Strahd, Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus, Eberron: Rising from the Final Battle, and much more plus sourcebooks like Tasha’s Cauldron of Every little thing and Van Richten’s Information to Ravenloft. You may also try the sale on Dungeonmasters Guild.
- Value: As much as 35% off
- Finish Date: January 2, 2024
D&D Past additionally has their Winter Sale occasion providing reductions on each first-party Wizards of the Coast merchandise like Tasha’s Cauldron of Every little thing, Eberron: Rising from the Ashes, Curse of Strahd, and extra together with third-party merchandise like Lord of the Rings 5e, The Illrigger class from MCDM, Grim Hole Participant Pack, The E book of Ebon Tides from Kobold Press, and extra.
- Value: As much as 45% off
- Finish Date: January 2, 2024
Fantasy Grounds has their very own winter sale going. Not solely are you able to get a Core License permitting you to affix any recreation or host your personal recreation for license-holders for half off, however rulebooks and VTT-ready adventures are additionally discounted.
- Value: As much as 50% off
- Finish Date: January 2, 2024
On-line retailer Miniature Market has a sale on the Darkish Souls RPG with reductions on the sourcebooks Tome of Unusual Beings and Tome of Journeys together with the GM display screen and a big collection of miniatures.
Chris Spivey is providing up bodily copies of his historic fantasy-horror wild west RPG Haunted West at a deep low cost for the vacations. Use the code HOLIDAY24 to get half off plus a free PDF copy of this large and totally researched core rulebook.
- Value: 50% off plus free PDF with code HOLIDAY24
- Finish Date: December 31, 2024
We now have a set of vacation themed bundles on DriveThruRPG and DMs Guild.
Charity Bundles and Gross sales
I’m beginning off a bit self-serving as that is my GoFundMe for medical payments. From late October to mid November, I used to be hospitalized with kidney failure and contaminated wounds in my decrease legs. The hospital discharged me earlier than I used to be prepared as I acquired subsequent to no bodily remedy and am nonetheless unable to face or stroll. This result in a slew of hurried bills together with a wheelchair, restocking of the kitchen with meals that met my new closely restricted food plan, and constructing a ramp so I may get out and in of the home. I nonetheless have dialysis thrice per week and wound care twice per week with costly transportation prices to get me to my appointments in my wheelchair. All of this I’m paying for out of pocket as I’ve no insurance coverage. Please think about donating as each greenback helps.
- Charity: Darryl Mott’s medical payments (all proceeds)
On Itch.io, Kelly Whyte has the Define Fundraising Bundle that includes 20 RPGs supporting Define, a psychological well being charity for the LGBTQ+ group in New Zealand. This bundle contains 5e class choices, solo journaling video games, and full RPGs of a number of genres together with sci-fi, Fifties pulp horror, city fantasy, romance, and extra.
- Value: $10.00 (76% off)
- Charity: Define (all proceeds)
- Finish Date: December 24, 2024
Over on Bundle of Holding, Free League has The One Ring 2E Bundle that includes the core rulebook for The One Ring Second Version, The One Ring Loremaster Display screen, and the solo play alternate guidelines Strider Mode. The Bonus Assortment provides on the situation e-book Ruins of the Misplaced Realm and the journey e-book Tales from the Lone-lands.
- Value: $7.95 (83% off) with variable-cost Stage-Up choice
- Charity: Diana Jones Rising Designer Program (10%)
- Finish Date: January 8, 2025
Mongoose has not one however two Traveller bundles for the second version of the basic area exploration roleplaying recreation. The Traveller 2024 Updates Bundle contains the Traveller Core Rulebook 2022, MGT Companion Replace 2024, the ship books MGT Journey Class Ships and MGT Small Craft Catalogue, and the MGT Robotic Handbook.
- Value: $17.95 (88% off)
- Charity: Diana Jones Rising Designer Program (10%)
- Finish Date: January 13, 2025
Now that you’ve your Traveller core rulebooks, you’ll need extra choices and areas, gained’t you? The Traveller Sectors Bundle core assortment has MGT Sector Building Information to construct your personal ships, MGT World Builder’s Handbook to create your personal planets, The Third Imperion setting e-book, and three core adventures. The Frontier Assortment provides on MGT Spinward Extents, MGT Behind the Crew, MGT Deep and the Darkish, MGT Trailing Frontier, MGT Rim Expeditions, and Aliens of Charted House V3 & V4.
- Value: $17.85 (86% off) with variable-cost Stage-Up choice
- Charity: Diana Jones Rising Designer Program (10%)
- Finish Date: January 13, 2025
Bundle of Holding has not one however two retro Shadowrun bundles that includes 4th Version books. The primary, the Shadowrun 4e Core Mega Bundle, options all of the core books you want with the Shadowrun 3e twentieth Anniversary Core Rulebook, Runner’s Companion and Toolkit, Arsenal (gun sourcebook), Augmentation (cyberware sourcebook), Avenue Magic and Digital Grimoire (magic sourcebooks), Unwired (hacking sourcebook), On the Run, and SR4 GM Display screen. If that’s not sufficient, the Bonus Assortment provides on a number of extra gear, setting, NPC, and guidelines choices books together with Angle, Avenue Legends, Avenue Legends Supplemental, Runner’s Black E book, Black E book 2074, 9 mini-sourcebooks, and the throwback Shadowrun 2050.
- Value: $17.95 (85% off) with variable price level-up choice
- Charity: Diana Jones Rising Designer Program (10%)
- Finish Date: December 30, 2024
The second bundle is one other Shadowrun 4e bundle however is beneficial for gamers of any version as a result of it’s all lore and setting info. The Shadowrun 4e Sprawl Mega Bundle contains the Sixth World Almanac, Shadowrun: Runner Havens, Seattle 2072, two Sprawl Websites guides, and Company Information. The Mega Bonus provides on Clutch of Dragons, 5 marketing campaign books, 4 setting guides, and 4 Sixth World mini-sourcebooks.
- Value: $17.95 (82% off) with variable-cost level-up choice
- Charity: Diana Jones Rising Designer Program (10%)
- Finish Date: December 30, 2024
Over on Humble Bundle, Free League has the RPG Mega Bundle that includes a big selection of titles from the publister. The bottom tier has Coriolis – Atlas Compendium and Symbaroum Superior Participant’s Information, whereas the second tier will get you three Tales from the Loop adventures together with adventures for Mutant: 12 months Zero and Coriolis. The highest tier is the place it’s at, although, with the core guidelines for Mutant: 12 months Zero, Tales from the Loop, Symbaroum, Forbidden Lands, Dragonbane, and Twilight: 2000 plus extra adventures.
- Value: $1/$10$18 (97% off at prime tier)
- Charity: Direct Aid (user-defined, default 5%)
- Finish Date: December 18, 2024
That’s all for this week! If you already know of any bundles or gross sales beginning quickly, please contact me on the EN World Discord, tag me on Bluesky , or ship me a message right here on EN World. Low cost percentages have been rounded to the closest entire quantity and are based mostly on the usual retail worth offered by the positioning. Word: Hyperlinks to Amazon, Humble Retailer, Humble Bundle, Miniature Market, Fantasy Grounds, and/or DriveThruRPG might include affiliate hyperlinks with the proceeds going to the creator of this column.
